Regulation
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A Country Is Not a Private Club
Private clubs are voluntary associations. Opting out of citizenship altogether is not a realistic option.
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Maybe It’s Good that People Assume that Politicians are Corrupt
There are no angels and certainly no saviors in this saga.
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The FDA Created Illegal and Dangerous Vapes
The scale of the freak-out by governments around the U.S., and by Trump’s FDA, which make no sense.
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Trump’s New Overtime Pay Rules Hurt the Little Guy
If the goal is to hurt the poor while benefiting large corporations, adding even more wage-related requirements to our labor code is the way to go.
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The Vaping “Crisis” is an Opportunity to Rethink Government Bans
All too often, alternatives to government bans are difficult to name offhand not because they don’t exist but because we haven’t asked. Perhaps this is our opportunity to do better.
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Firearms and the Problem of Rights
Even if we somehow magically made all the guns go away, a few of our laziest, dullest mass murders might be deterred, but many would deploy instead even deadlier and more indiscriminate weapons of mass murder.
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You Can’t Create Jobs by Outlawing Work
You can kill the process of innovation, and harm the very workers you think you are trying to help. California has made a terrible mistake.
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Legal Moonshine At Last
The producers are growing in number. The customer base is expanding. Everyone is winning. At some point, the regulations have to give way.
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The Left’s Conservative Approach to Jobs
Rather than helping people thrive in a world in which “one person, one job” makes less and less sense, the left advocates an outdated corporate-paternalistic model where “company men” work in the same factory or office their entire career.
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New Light On Price Gouging
So-called “price gougers” actually increase the availability of needed goods and services in regions struck by natural disasters, an activity that causes prices in those regions to be lower than otherwise.
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It’s Lightbulb Liberation Day
We live in times without much good news in politics. Let’s at least take the weekend to celebrate the embrace of progress, acquiescence to the wisdom of markets, the new freedom found for this hugely important symbol of humankind’s triumph over the poverty of nature.
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Government Cannot Select the Right Immigrants
Why believe that the state can pick the right immigrants but not the right industries to subsidize?
